This book unites two approaches to teaching programming languages, one
based on a survey of languages and the other on writing definitional
interpreters. It has been used as a textbook at over... More > fifteen
institutions worldwide, and is referenced by non-academic users on the
Web. The book is updated approximately every year. You can
learn about the differences between versions, and get the accompanying
software, from the
book's
Web site.
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This book unites two approaches to teaching programming languages, one based on a survey of languages and the other on writing definitional interpreters. It has been used as a textbook at over fifty... More > institutions worldwide, and is referenced by non-academic users on the Web. You can learn about the differences between versions, and get the accompanying software, from the book's Web site (www.plai.org).
You can get the same PDF version of the book, free of cost, from its Web site. This is to give you a choice: if you want to pay the author, get it from here; if you don't (or can't afford to), get it for free from there.
Note: This book is no longer being maintained. There is a second edition, linked from the book's Web site, but the content has since been incorporated into a new book that will also be linked from the book's Web site when it's ready for public consumption.< Less

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